It requires some customization out of the box to get it looking half-way decent but it is unsurpassed as far as features go. It also has a very lightweight memory footprint. Anything uses more than 20mb of RAM just to play an mp3 is a bit absurd.

It requires some customization out of the box to get it looking half-way decent but it is unsurpassed as far as features go. It also has a very lightweight memory footprint. Anything uses more than 20mb of RAM just to play an mp3 is a bit absurd.

Does anyone run out of memory nowadays? Maybe from a programming standpoint it's commendable to have the program run efficiently, but I think the average computer can spare plenty more than 20 mb of RAM.

It requires some customization out of the box to get it looking half-way decent but it is unsurpassed as far as features go. It also has a very lightweight memory footprint. Anything uses more than 20mb of RAM just to play an mp3 is a bit absurd.

Does anyone run out of memory nowadays? Maybe from a programming standpoint it's commendable to have the program run efficiently, but I think the average computer can spare plenty more than 20 mb of RAM.

It is still fairly good indicator of bloat. If you need half a gigabyte of memory to play a music file, something went wrong in the design of the program. Also, if you are going to have a program be open 24/7, like how I use my media player, having it be less taxing on your system becomes more important.

I use Winamp for audio and VLC for video. It's been a reliable combination for several years. I have, however, heard good things about foobar2000, but since my current solution just works, I haven't seen any need to migrate. Winamp also comes with powerful procedural visualizers, but they aren't exactly necessary.